shakran

OK, I see your point. I don't think anyone's saying one death is less tragic than another, however. But the sad reality is that so many people are killed every day that if we the media reported on EVERY death, that's all we'd ever talk about, and then you'd complain about that.

No matter what the medium, there is only so much space or time to fit all the day's news in. Even the newspaper can't just go off and print up a 300 page edition on a whim. That means there must be a filtration process. Part of that filtration process is looking for either something out of the ordinary (a common mantra is "dog bits man, no story, man bites dog, there's a story.") or something which effects a large portion of your viewers/readers. One guy getting killed in Philly will be reported on its local news, but it's not going to effect someone in LA, so it probably won't make it out there unless there's an unusual element to it - - and sadly there's nothing unusual anymore about one person getting murdered.

Clearly what happened today is tragic - no more or less tragic on a family-by-family basis than any other murder, although I would argue it is far more tragic to the VT community as a whole than a single murder would have been. Clearly as well what happened today is highly unusual - - in fact, a shooting on this scale has never before happened in this country, and that alone makes it news.

I mean no offense, but I reject your premise - - -it's very unusual for a murder to not get a mention in the media local to the area the murder happened in.